The Unbusy Mom - take your time back strategies for business moms

How does getting 20 hours back a week sound?

Mom life is easy for me. And by the way, I’m working from home (plus homeschooling!) with 5 kids.

Ready to give yourself permission to quit?

✅ You feel like you’re up to your eyeballs in to-do lists

✅ You’ve got more things scheduled on your calendar than you’ve ever seen

✅ Your kids need more time than you’ve currently got (for homework & playing with them after school)

✅ Your plans for date night are getting pushed last minute (or snoozed till next week – again)

✅ You can’t even fathom taking a two-hour break in the middle of the day (because if you stop, the house might literally burn down)

✅ You can’t remember the last time you got a pedicure (because you’re too busy taking care of everyone except yourself)

It’s time to escape the never-ending cycle of “there goes my lunch break” meetings, “turn around by Friday” projects, & “hang on I’m almost done” answers to your kids….

And swap that for working less, snuggling your kids, and putting "me time" back on your calendar.

Listen - I’ve been a work-at-home entrepreneur for 5+ years, with 5 kids at home with me (all day every day), with podcasts to record and client calls to take - and I’m still getting 3 hours of free time a day.

My genius is showing you what you SHOULDN’T be doing - ‘cause you’re right, you can’t do it all.

And it’s time for you to stop creating unnecessary pressure in your role as mom, entrepreneur, and all-around high achiever.

Here’s your new “work from home freedom” plan….

✔ Give yourself the workouts, journaling, and hobby time you need every single day

✔ Spend more time cuddling your kids, less time cleaning up after them

✔ Shut off the work brain and be fully present as a mom

✔ Deep work for hours (guilt-free) as you scale your business

✔ Up your revenue, not your hours

Ready to turn down the pressure valve on your time management?

➡️ Need to banish the pressure from your business to-do list? In this exclusive podcast series, I break down how to get 3-5 hours back for yourself every day. Grab the feed here: https://colossal-motivator-2652.ck.page/24b0417f6a

➡️ Ready to work less, snuggle your kids, and put "me time" back on your calendar? Let’s redo your CEO schedule so you can hit your priorities every day in your business, mom life, and goals list. Book your High Achiever Reset session here: https://yourunbusylife.com/intensive/

➡️ Want to close up shop each day, feeling satisfied as the mom AND the high performer? Book a Take Your Time Back VIP Package with me when your biz needs you to free up 20+ hours a week as a work-from-home entrepreneur. https://yourunbusylife.com/time-vip/

Episodes

454 episodes

Stop freaking out at the next wave of clients as an entrepreneur mom… just hit the recharge button!

Every time you sign a few more clients (yay, money!), you get overwhelmed. Then you overwork to keep up, overcompensate, and inevitably, burn out. It’s become a pattern.So here’s my anti-brain-fog suggestion that ...

September 18, 2025 • 6:14

When your family needs you more than your business, but you still want to work….

How do you readjust your week’s workflow when you know you’re going to catch the family bug sooner or later… but you’ve got clients and students and deliverable projects to keep in the air??(And inside you’re resenting your kids for ruin...

September 16, 2025 • 4:01

What happens when you’re already past capacity as a mom running an agency?

You’ve got clients flowing in the door; all the invoicing and transaction entering and profit taking that goes along with them; more half-finished deliverables than you can shake a stick at; oh, and a family and body that you’re supposed to tak...

September 11, 2025 • 4:37

Best time to start your kids on chores (so you can have more CEO time)? Last month.

If you haven't started your kids on chores yet, now is a GREAT time to get going.Because unless your kids are 4 and under, they can be doing chores….….Which means it's YOUR responsibility to teach them.Because the first and...

September 09, 2025 • 4:38

Anti-self development hack: how to AVOID working on your patterns.

You’re battling the same sneaky story that your brain likes to tell you - that it’s your fault for not being gracious enough and understanding enough and reframing your frustration with your team….Newsflash: you aren’t supposed to be res...

September 04, 2025 • 5:01

Which is better: morning selfcare or getting a head start on your business to-do list?

You’re already sold on morning routines, but which is better - knocking out 5 chores before the kids get up, or using your precious quiet hours to pour into yourself?Because you know you need to schedule in your personal recharge time on...

September 02, 2025 • 4:15

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 8: Your pending Trello cards aren’t overwhelming you. It’s actually THIS.

Because it’s not your to-do list’s fault. It’s yours.If you’re not confident that you can knock out everything on that to-do list, and you’re tying yourself up in knots about it, that’s a “you” issue.Listen - your task list does n...

August 28, 2025 • 4:11

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 7: Do NOT listen to this kind of time management advice - unless you want to stay stuck as a mom growing her online business!

You know WHY the "fit everything in" hacks you’ve been trying haven’t worked for you yet?Because they’re not the full picture. They’re just the strategy part.Those gurus are forgetting that you have kids, and you can’t just wake ...

August 26, 2025 • 3:39

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 6: If work is bleeding into your weekend again (when you really need that Sunday break)....

It’s like Saturday is hiding out from you, hoping you won’t notice that it’s stolen most of the to-do list and hoarding all those tasks to dump on you!But good news, here’s how my latest client and I dealt with the chore hideout monster....

August 21, 2025 • 4:46

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 5: Stop thinking other high-performing business moms know the secret.

It's just time management, following through on your to-do list, using your time buckets like crazy, and delegating something. Lots of somethings.That’s how it’s all “fitting in” for them. Which means you can do it all, too.<...

August 19, 2025 • 6:16

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 4: You’re going to feel mom guilt even if you’re working from home.

Because every mom deals with guilt. The only question is what that guilt’s going to be about.Using the frozen pizza one night instead of cooking from scratch for optimum nutrition?Letting your phone play babysit...

August 14, 2025 • 6:34

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 3: The busier you are, the more scheduled you need to be. True?

If you’ve got a ton of stuff going on, you have to be way more strict about holding yourself to pre-determined timelines and boundaries for when you have to shift tasks.Because all you need to do is firmly wall off your creative work tim...

August 12, 2025 • 5:26

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 2: What you should know before starting ANY new scheduling practice.

You’re hitting everything on the client work plus marketing plus sales outreach plus content creation plus business bookkeeping plus CEO time to-do list - but it’s all feeling kind of catch-as-catch can instead of smoothly flowing from one thin...

August 07, 2025 • 5:39

Smarter Not Harder Ep. 1: Is hustle mode mandatory for a business mom?

Am I seriously supposed to act like I’m Elon Musk and just live at the office, only popping out every now and then to see my husband and kids and go to church, and meantime tell them “I’m working to secure your future” and have that be my worka...

August 05, 2025 • 9:45

How to radically chop your calendar when there’s nothing else to cut.

“I’ve got ‘due by’ client projects to turn in; my kids need a lot of attention from me right now; there’s a bunch of food prepping and household stock-up tasks on my plate; and I’ve got 3 ‘go out to coffee’ invites from friends just sitting the...

July 31, 2025 • 6:46

The ultimate guide to cycle syncing (so you never burn out on period week again).

You’ve heard about cycle syncing by now. But you’re thinking, is it really going to be the be-all end-all if I just track a few dates and add an extra calendar app thing? How much does this actually affect my energy leve...

July 29, 2025 • 6:28

Is there a right way to handle client meetings when your kids are halfway through their bedtime routine?

“No client calls while the kids are awake” is your general rule, but….This one time the sales call can’t be moved, and your preschoolers aren’t in bed yet (teeth brushed though!), leaving you uncertain how this call’s going to go on top ...

July 24, 2025 • 4:43

The ONE time I want you to keep working and ignore your mom guilt (as an online entrepreneur).

Sometimes, when we’re all gung ho about transformation, we think it’s going to be “zap and we’re done.” But sometimes change isn’t like that. Sometimes you have to decide to do the thing, believe differently about yourse...

July 22, 2025 • 3:52

How to Take Back Your Time as a Work-at-Home Mom (Interview with Jill Wright)

(Posted with permission from Jill.)If your days feel like a chaotic blend of client calls, snack requests, laundry piles, and forgotten to-do lists, this one’s for you. In this episode, I’m joined by coach Alyssa Wolff, a work-from-home ...

July 18, 2025 • 27:14

Why ignoring your to-do list is the best decision you’ll ever make.

Because what you really want is to be able to close down your laptop and put a clear end to work every. Single. Day.But your reality is that you never take time off from your to-do list, because you said you’d quit when it got crossed of...

July 17, 2025 • 5:20

Before you spin out over how far you still have to go in your work-from-home business....

Are you still energized by that next level, or are you getting tired of all the (semi major) steps there are between where you started and where you want to be, business-wise?You’re getting discouraged at the thought that you haven’t arr...

July 15, 2025 • 5:55

My secret for easing out of vacation mode - WITHOUT jumping straight back into work.

Do you tend to push yourself to get right back into work post family vacation or Christmas getaway or big Thanksgiving road trip? Are you putting that kind of pressure on yourself to be “all in” on client support, project deliverabl...

July 10, 2025 • 8:39

Can you fit parenting into your work-from-home day, while equally prioritizing both?

What exactly is the point of a work-from-home business in the first place? Is it to indulge yourself in lazy mornings, slow cups of coffee, and nice, quiet houses in your perfectly-set-up work office (instead of the impersonal cubic...

July 08, 2025 • 5:18

The Emotional Tax of Juggling Business and Parenting with Jennifer Abbatiello

Today we have a bonus episode for you all about the emotional tax of juggling business and parenting. We’re bringing on a guest, Jennifer Abbatiello, to talk about resilience as the mother behind the business - because how you handl...

July 07, 2025 • 8:52

This is what I told my client when she couldn’t unplug from her to-do list.

J. said, “I find myself taking on every task I see in front of myself rather than stopping to ask if I should be doing it. Then I never get to relax!”And that’s a problem.Because you as the business owner need to have dedicated re...

July 03, 2025 • 6:27